Water protection and restoration

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Substantive content:

Sources of water pollution.

Drinking water treatment.

Wastewater treatment.

Role of organisms in the biological processes of drinking water treatment and wastewater treatment.

Domestic and UE water and wastewater legal regulations

Visits to the water and wastewater treatment plants.

Standards for ecologically successful aquatic restoration and an assessment of potential risks and indicators of water pollution.

Differences in functioning natural and transformed freshwater ecosystems.

The best practices for freshwater restoration on the example of projects implemented in Europe.

The short-term and long-term effect of aquatic restorations.

Literature:

• England, J., Angelopoulos, N., Cooksley, S., Dodd, J., Gill, A., Gilvear, D., ... & Tree, A. (2021). Best Practices for Monitoring and Assessing the Ecological Response to River Restoration. Water 2021, 13, 3352.

• Legal regulations and statistics on water protection.

• Palmer, M., & Ruhi, A. (2019). Linkages between flow regime, biota, and ecosystem processes: Implications for river restoration. Science, 365(6459), eaaw2087.

• Szałkiewicz, E., Jusik, S., & Grygoruk, M. (2018). Status of and perspectives on river restoration in Europe: 310,000 Euros per hectare of restored river. Sustainability, 10(1), 129.

• Shackira, A. M., Sarath, N. G., & Puthur, J. T. (2022). Phycoremediation: a means for restoration of water contamination. Environmental Sustainability, 1-14.

• Wang J. 2012. Fundamentals of biological processes for wastewater treatment. In: Biological Sludge Minimization and Biomaterials/Bioenergy Recovery Technologies. Wiley Online Library

• Weber, C., Åberg, U., Buijse, A. D., Hughes, F. M., McKie, B. G., Piégay, H., ... & Haertel‐Borer, S. (2018). Goals and principles for programmatic river restoration monitoring and evaluation: collaborative learning across multiple projects. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 5(1), e1257.

Forms and conditions of credit:

Attendance and participation in discussion during lectures and laboratory and field courses.

Final report from the seminar and field courses.